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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

2554	Is intentionality a special sort of function? [Rorty]
	Full Idea: Following Wittgenstein, we shall treat the intentional as merely a subspecies of the functional.
	From: Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 1.3)
	A reaction: Intriguing but obscure. Sounds wrong to me. The intentional refers to the content of thoughts, but function concerns their role. They have roles because they have content, so they can't be the same.